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Article: No escaping these tabloid nonentities; Britons guilty of exporting crass parts of our 'culture': Straight to the point with OUR KAIRDIFF KID Dan O'Neill dan.oneill@walesonline.co.uk.
- Article from:
- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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MANY years ago that eminent essayist JB Priestley concluded that the supreme sin of the national press (yes, national, not local papers like wot your Echo is) was not hypocritical prurience nor the sickening sycophancy towards "our beloved Queen"; nor the sugar-coated sentiments about his beloved rose garden by the gruesome Godfrey Winn - "He shakes hands with people's hearts," said his boss Lord Beaverbrook.
No, he boomed (yep, old JB could boom in print), the supreme sin was a preoccupation with trivia, meaning the elevation of nincompoops to positions of national ...
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